December 2005
Defeating Bots with CAPTCHAs
by Balaji V
Bots are software that crawl through your web site, make auto registrations and attempt automated attacks like password guessing. This article shows how to stop Bots in their tracks using a technique called CAPTCHAs.… more →
Interview: The Challenges of Security Testing
Palisade spoke to Vinod Vasudevan this week to understand the challenges professional penetration testing teams face. As CTO of Paladion, Vinod is responsible for the quality and effectiveness of the tests.… more →
Quiz: Best Input Validation Strategy
What’s the best strategy to validate the inputs in our application?
- Look out for malicious input during validation and filter that out
- Specify what’s good, and allow only that
- I love a combination of both
Review: Essential PHP Security
by Chris Shiflett
Due to its simplicity and ease of deployment, the popularity of the PHP programming language in web development has soared in the last few years. But PHP developers, for long, have overlooked security issues when creating PHP web applications. This book by Chris Shiflett explains the essential techiniques in coding for a PHP web application.… more →